Technology Commentary

Maintaining a lot of APIs can heighten security risks and negatively affect productivity. Here's how to develop a clear API strategy and processes to avoid the downside. #APIsprawl #APImanagement

Co-authored by Carl Sverre from SingleStore What is a User-Defined Function? A User-Defined Function (UDF) encapsulates business logic in such a way that it can be safely run within another service's infrastructure. Historically, general purpose UDFs...

Can a website play with a mastodon?

I often find myself running into mysterious command line errors as I install different development dependencies over and over. Fortunately many commands have an option for verbose output that gives more insight.

Businesses in highly regulated sectors and those that operate in multiple countries are faced with a growing number of data privacy regulations.

“Security guru” Bruce Schneier on good data hygiene for journalists, how newsrooms can protect their staff from cyberattacks, and more

I'm one of a small, but growing, crowd who believe that People Who Make Software Happen (you may know them as "programmers")

Robots and autonomous cars will have eyes that see much more than the human eye is capable of, a review of the growing field of meta-optics has found.

What a long, strange...yeah, let's just get to reliving four decades of ups and downs punctuated by milestones in the personal computer industry and our coverage of them.

Scott talks with Kris Nova who has been building and scaling Hachyderm, a Mastodon instance that began in her basement and is now moving into the cloud. Nova shares her extensive knowledge on the technical challenges and solutions involved in creating and maintaining Hachyderm, as well as her insights on the importance of building and maintaining a welcoming and inclusive online community.

The web project is helping internet users in Russia, Iran, and elsewhere see censored news without the need of a VPN.

The term has become so ambiguous it's verging on irrelevance

How you can use micro-commits to effectively apply the Strangler Fig pattern.

Elon Musk has used the same playbook at all of his companies from Tesla to SpaceX. Sadly for him, his model will cause Twitter to go down in flames.

The end of classical computer science is coming, and most of us are dinosaurs waiting for the meteor to hit.

The idea of the metaverse has been gaining momentum in recent years, becoming a catch-all buzzword used to describe different things in the digital landscape. What it means depends on who you ask. It could be VR social networks, online games with crypto assets, 3d communication spaces, or any virtual world. But is all the hype justified? In this essay, we’ll explore applications with good potential and also consider situations where it might not make sense.

The following comes from a deleted tweet, so I have paraphrased in some places and also removed references to a few specific individuals.  If the author wishes to reclaim ownership of these ideas, I will write a separate blog post crediting him: 1. AGI and Fusion are what matter.  Fusion accelerates AGI, since AGI is […]

Elon Musk admits banning links to Twitter rival was a mistake

“Secure Element” (SE) chips have traditionally taken a very closed-source, NDA-heavy approach. Bunnie Huang writes: …an early-stage SE chip startup, Cramium (still in stealth mode), approached me t…

The December 2022 issue of PC Magazine will be its last one. Carol Mangis, manager of the magazine’s digital edition, announced the news in her “First Word” column. The magazine started its life in…

Hacky repo to see what the Copilot extension sends to the server